Hello there,
On March 11th 2011 I was working at the Apple Store in Richmond. My wife and our 2 year old daughter were in Japan for a bit of a spring break. When I heard the news of the triple disaster in Tohoku – a 9.1 earthquake triggering a tsunami that took out a nuclear power plant – I was frightened for my family. Lucky for me they were okay. Tragically there were 19,759 deaths, 6242 injured, and 2553 people declared missing. Four years later there were still 228,863 people living displaced from their homes or in temporary housing. Even today, Japan still has not recovered from the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Tomorrow I will get on a plane with my family bound for Aomori. From there we will spend the next week working our way southward, visiting various memorials and seeing the ongoing recovery efforts of towns that were washed away along the coast. It is an important historical event that Japan is still dealing with, and we want to make sure to pay our respects while we are here in Japan.
The trip will not all be sombre. For the first time I will be seeing some of the sights of northern Japan. Likely I will be posting images on Mastodon throughout the journey. You can follow along at https://indieweb.social/@chadkoh.
Take care of yourselves,
Chad
🖋 From the Blog
Spatial Computing, Infinite Canvas, and new perspectives.
For when you get lost in too many thoughts.
🧭 Elsewhere
NASA visualization of carbon being added to the atmosphere in 2021. Stunning. Stark. Link →
Out of the virtual community Zuzalu some principles for “Coordi-nations” surface Link →
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📖 What I’m Reading
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
(56% Complete)
I loved Ministry for the Future so I picked up KSR’s “other” clifi novel. Lots in here about governance and “exit” so far.